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Short Summary of PHP Editors

I’ve been fighting my PHP Editors over the past few months, so I decided to look at other editors besides Eclipse PDT.

Eclipse PDT

Aptana

TextMate

NetBeans

Zend Studio

Cuda

PhpStorm

Performance

3

3

5

4

3

5

5

SVN+SSH

5

5

2

1

5

5

5

Code Assist

5

1

1

5

1

1

5

Color Coding

2

5

5

3

1

5

4

Cost

5

3

3

5

1

3

3

Total

20

17

16

18

11

19

22

The winner by a nose is PhpStorm by JetBrains. I actually found them a little late in my search, but it’s by far the best of all the other editors I’ve used. While the color coding is mostly manual, it’s still better and easier to use than Eclipse PDT. I’ll use it for a bit and update this post with my usage experience.